Exhibition
Go Behind-the-Scenes of Hamnet at This Exhibition
Oscar winner Chloé Zhao is releasing her adaption of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, in January but you can get a peek behind-the-scenes of the film before it comes out at this exhibition. Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream will showcase a collection of original props, set pieces, on-set photography by Agata Grzybowska, and artwork and writings from Zhao and Buckley, giving you an insight into the creative process.
This Exhibition Is a Showcase of Japanese Craft
With the Hyakkō: 100+ Makers from Japan exhibition, Japan House London is exploring the country’s rich culture of craft, with more than 2000 works across glass, metal, leather and wood, from 120 makers on display. The exhibition will explore how makers reference tradition in their works whilst also adding their own individual expressions, and how the craft of the everyday has come to be appreciated.
Step Inside a Botanical Garden With The Butterfly Trail at Outernet
Hold a butterfly on the tip of your finger at this immersive botanical garden at Outernet London. Created in collaboration with Pixel Artworks, mixed-reality experience The Butterfly Trail is back for another run on Outernet’s four-storey high, 16k wraparound screen. Using cutting-edge exhibition tech, The Butterfly Trail will take you through explorer Professor Peter Pelgrin’s Botanical workshop and inside his Glass House where you can interact with the space, release AR butterflies and trigger real-time animations using your smartphone.
The Gingerbread City Is Back for 2025
Forget gingerbread houses, there’s an actual gingerbread city coming to King’s Cross this Christmas. Created by the Museum of Architecture, this is the ninth year of the project and this time, the theme for the exhibition is ‘The Playful City’. The aim is to explore how we can design cities that spark fun and public spaces that encourage joy and connection, only doing it through the mediums of biscuits, sweets, cakes, and icing. Not only is this a sweet way to help get the public excited about architecture and innovative, sustainable design, a little holiday cheer never hurt anybody.
Tate Britain Is Hosting a Major Exhibition on Turner and Constable
In the 250th year of their births, Tate Britain is hosting a major exhibition on J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, two of Britain’s greatest artists who were born within a year of each other and who used different visions of landscape art to reflect the changing world around them. Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals explores the intertwined lives and legacies of these artistic rivals – critics compared their paintings to a clash of ‘fire and water’ – with over 170 paintings and paper works display, alongside intimate insights from sketchbooks and personal items.
Look Back Over Wes Anderson's Work at the Design Museum
Calling all Wes Anderson fans! The Design Museum is hosting a landmark exhibition on the director, featuring objects from his personal archives that will be displayed in Britain for the first time. Wes Anderson: The Archives will look back over his career, from his early experiments in the 90s to his most recent films, with over 600 objects, including storyboards, sketches, polaroids, puppets, models, costumes, notebooks, props and more, on show. They include a pink model of the Grand Budapest Hotel, the fur coat worn by Gwyneth Paltrow in the The Royal Tenenbaums, the vending machines from Asteroid City, and stop-motion sea creature puppets used in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The exhibition will also include a screening of Anderson’s first short film Bottle Rocket, as well as work-in-progress material and maquettes.
Explore the World of Fly-Posting at This Exhibition
Taking over The Sandbox, The CarWash and The Platform at 1 Quaker Street, The Art of Flying is an immersive exhibition that dives into the world of fly-posting. Created from an oral history project documenting the stories of commercial fly-posters across the UK between 1973 and 1993, the display explores the spirit of this urban subculture across archive, sound, film and live events. There’ll be photo histories of street fly-posting, first-hand accounts of people who worked “on the brush”, free screen printing sessions with Jealous Gallery, documentary interviews, montages of fly-posting on screen, and talks by artists and activists.
Get Nostalgic With These Annie Frost Nicholson Paintings
With her new exhibition And my mother said to me, enjoy your life, Annie Frost Nicholson, who explores grief and the human condition in her work, is using colour and form to tap into nostalgia and memory. Her large-scale pieces, including drawing, painting, hand-stitching and printmaking, look back on an analogue world that we can’t return to and ask us what should we keep and what can we let go of.
Art on a Postcard Is Teaming up With War Child for a Charity Auction
Art-based charity Art on a Postcard is back with another fundraising auction and exhibition in collaboration with War Child this autumn, and this one has a Kate Bush theme. Sound & Vision, run in partnership with Iconic Images Gallery, will see 52 artists create a piece in response to iconic Kate Bush lyric “If I only could, I’d make a deal with God”, from ‘Running Up That Hill’ on Hounds of Love, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The likes of Peter Doig, Maggi Hambling, Charlie Calder-Potts, Susie Hamilton, Corbin Shaw, Unskilled Worker, Ayobola Kekere-Ekun, Boo Saville, Hannah Lim and LUAP have contributed pieces to the auction.
Step Inside Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World
Cecil Beaton was a true multi-hyphenate, working as a fashion illustrator, Oscar-winning costume designer and writer as well as a fashion and portrait photographer. The National Portrait Gallery is hosting the Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World exhibition (the first of its kind) dedicated solely to his contributions to fields of fashion and portrait photography. Over 200 items, including images, letters, portrait sketches, illustrations and costumes, will be on display, capturing the glamour of the Jazz Age, the Bright young Things and the golden age of Hollywood. Portraits of the some of the most famous figures in the twentieth century, like Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brandon, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Salvador Dalí, show just why Beaton was given the title ‘The King of Vogue’.
Marvel at the Diversity of the Natural World at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition
The 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is being hosted at the Natural History Museum. The display features awarded images selected around from over 60,000 entries and it showcases the beauty and diversity of the natural world. See everything from penguins journeying across an ice shelf to a lion facing down a snake in the Serengeti depicted in the photographs.
Tate Britain Is Hosting the Biggest Lee Miller Retrospective in the UK
The Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain is the most extensive retrospective of her photography ever staged in the UK, covering her work in French surrealism to her fashion photography to her war reportage. Around 250 vintage and modern prints, including some that have never been on display before, feature in the exhibition. It begins with Miller’s time working in front of the camera as a model before moving on to her work in Paris, including with surrealist artist and lover Man Ray. Photographs from Cairo and wartime London are presented alongside her famous images from Buchenwald and Dachau, with lesser-known elements of her practice, like images of the Egyptian landscape in the 1930s, also on show.
This Free Photography Exhibition Celebrates Women Land Defenders
ActionAid, an international charity that works to support women and girls living in poverty, is putting on a free exhibition at Oxo Gallery that champions both women in front of and behind the camera. Women By Women features photographs of women around the world who are defending their land and communities from destruction, from farmers in Nigeria standing up to the oil companies polluting their land to former bonded labourers in Nepal who are fighting to receive land certificates in their names. The exhibition showcases the personal stories of these women whilst also exposing the discrimination they face and highlighting the women-led organisations that are supporting them.
Discover the Artists Who Pioneered Nigerian Modernism
Tate Modern is exploring the artists who revolutionised modern art in Nigeria in the mid-20th century with the Nigerian Modernism exhibition. Artists working both before and after the decade of national independence from British rule in 1960, across Zaria, Ibadan, Lagos and Enugu, as well as London, Munich and Paris, are showcased in the exhibition. The work of groups like the Zaria Art Society and Mbari Artists’ and Writers’ Club; the fusion of Nigerian, African and European traditions; and the backdrop of cultural and artistic rebellion will feature in the show, where you’ll be able to see works spanning paintings, sculpture, textiles and poetry from more than 50 artists, including Uzo Egonu, Ladi Kwali, El Anatsui, and Ben Enwonwu MBE.
Celebrate 100 Years of the Photobooth at The Photographers' Gallery
2025 is the 100th anniversary of the invention of the analogue photobooth by Anatol Josepho and The Photographers’ Gallery is hosting an exhibition to celebrate. Strike a Pose! 100 Years of the Photobooth looks back on the history of the photobooth, from its initial invention to its everyday adoption around the world. A combined studio and lab in one, the photobooth made photography accessible and affordable to all, requiring no technical knowledge to operate. The exhibition charts the photobooth’s initial popularity (the first one in NYC was used by 7500 people in its first five days) to its ubiquitousness in the 1950s and 1960s (when they were used by regular people, celebs and artists like Andy Warhol) to the resurgence of analogue booths around the world following their disappearance after the rise of digital photography. Archive prints, vintage strips and materials will all be on display and there’ll be a booth for you to take your own pics in, with live feed running so you can see the mechanics of the booth in action.
See Early Beatles Photographs Taken By Paul McCartney
Rearview Mirror: Liverpool–London–Paris at Gagosian features photographs of the Beatles, taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm Pentax carmera, between late 1963 and early 1964, just before the band’s debut trip to America. The snaps show candid moments during their first headline tour in 1963; their appearance on the BBC’s Juke Box Jury; The Beatles Christmas Show; and their three-week residency at the Olympia Theatre in Paris, and show McCartney’s perspective as both a participant and observer of ‘Beatlemania’.
